Tag Archives: Pythagorean triples

The electronic version of the latest issue of the Girls’ Angle Bulletin is now available on our website. The cover features a planar configuration by Leah Berman, associate professor of mathematics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. There are 240 … Continue reading →

The fascination with Pythagorean triples continues…so in addition to the method of parametrizing rational points on the unit circle and the matrix method, here’s another way to generate them using origami. To the best of my knowledge, the method was discovered … Continue reading →

I learned this method of generating Pythagorean triples in a graduate class at MIT taught by Victor Kac. I’m blogging about it now because I just discussed generating Pythagorean triples with a student (using the method of parametrizing rational points … Continue reading →